{"id":229504,"date":"2025-08-06T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/229504\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:37:10","slug":"san-diego-padres-to-raise-season-ticket-prices-for-fifth-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/229504\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres to raise season-ticket prices for fifth consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Padres enter play Wednesday holding the third wild card in the National League, though tied with the Mets for the second spot with a 63-51 record. Getty Images <\/p>\n

The Padres are \u201craising season-ticket prices for a fifth straight year\u201d by a \u201cweighted average increase of 7% for 2026,\u201d more than doubling last year\u2019s increase<\/a>, according to Jeff Sanders of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. The Padres did not raise season ticket prices from 2017 through 2021. Since then, the weighted average — \u201cbased on membership tenure, seating locations and various plans\u201d — has increased from 20% in 2022<\/a> to 18% in 2023<\/a> to 9% in 2024<\/a> to 3% for this season. The team has \u201calready sold out\u201d 49 of its 55 dates at Petco Park. The Padres, who currently hold the third NL wild card, also rank third in average attendance<\/a> and have \u201ccapped season ticket sales each of the last three years while maintaining a waiting list\u201d (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 8\/5<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres enter play Wednesday holding the third wild card in the National League, though tied with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,19734],"class_list":{"0":"post-229504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres","15":"tag-ticketing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114982803726267967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}